Delores Sanchez,
an old woman, carries flowers as she walks through a
foggy graveyard. She uses a flashlight to find her way.
She finally stops at a grave and asks softly, "Are
you resting Angel?" The inscription on the stone
cross says "Angela Sanchez 1977  1997."
She places the flowers on the grave and says she's prayed
every day for justice but now that it's the anniversary
of her death the gods will finally help them. Thunder
rumbles in the distance. She takes a medallion off her
neck and says that it belonged to her grandmother and her
grandmother before her. She drapes the chain of the
medallion on the upper part of the stone. Then she begins
an incantation calling, "Xiuteuchtli, God of fire,
God of our ancestors, to whom we sacrificed hearts and
souls. I ask that you deliver justice to the enemies of
my family." The medallion glows brightly and from
within it a low growling is heard. She kneels then as
suddenly a flame comes from the medallion and disappears
into the sky as a fireball. Delores watches silently.

Barnard
Compound - that night

Michael Barnard,
who is working late in an office, speaks on the phone to
a business associate. He ruthlessly instructs the man to
purchase stock in a company knowing that it will put a
man named Carlisle out on the street. Suddenly the
fireball comes at great speed, melts the glass in the
window and settles for a few seconds on the glass of the
desktop. Then it suddenly ricochets back and strikes
Michael, burning him to death and leaving him in a pile
of ashes.

Legacy
kitchen  morning

Nick, wearing
jeans and a red sweatshirt, stands at the stove and makes
pancakes. Rachel, dressed in a somber black suit, enters
and announces, "I hate funerals." Nick solemnly
replies "They aren't exactly the hottest ticket in
the country." Rachel now pouring coffee responds
that he makes it sound like she's going to a Broadway
opening. Nick apologetically offers, "No disrespect
intended." Rachel quickly replies "none
taken," and goes on to say that when the Barnard
sneezes it makes the front page and when one dies it
rates the entire front section of the paper. Then she
looks at what he's making in the pan and asks if she can
have one. Nick replies "Sure" and places a
pancake on a plate for her. She goes to the table and
pours syrup on it while Nick puts a pancake on his plate
and joins her.

Nick asks if she
was friends with Michael when she was a kid. Rachel
replies that she'd see him around the house and he could
be charming but he also had a temper so she tended to
just stay out of his way. It was Melinda Barnard,
Michael's sister, who was Rachel's friend when they were
younger. As they eat breakfast, Nick mentions that it
must have been weird hanging out with them as a teen.
Rachel replies that it seemed kind of normal to her.
"Depends on your definition of normal," Nick
answers as he eats. Rachel nods her head and agrees,
"It's whatever you get used to."

Rachel tells
Nick that there will be a gathering at the family
compound after the funeral. Suzanne Barnard, the
matriarch of the family doesn't think the death is as cut
and dried as a simple accidental fire so Rachel had
promised her they'd look into her son's death. She hopes
Nick will be willing to come to the compound after the
funeral to meet the family. She describes Suzanne as a
strong woman who ran an empire and raised a family. She
was tough and yet a wonderful person. Finished with her
pancake, she rises and says, "This was great. I
gotta go." She leaves to attend the funeral.

Legacy 
control room  later

Nick sits at the
computer and does research into the Barnard family. There
are many news articles and magazine stories about them.
Alex enters, looks at the screen and asks,
"Homework?" Nick replies "I thought if I
was going to spend time with the royal family, I should
bone up on them." They discuss what they know about
the family. The Barnard's have a reputation of being
ruthless in business but committed to social causes.
Suzanne, the mother, makes all the decisions. Alex
recalls there was speculation that they used arson to
burn out competition. Nick comments that perhaps
Michael's death was "poetic justice." Rachel's
friend Melinda committed suicide in college and left
behind a baby son named Todd. The father of Todd was
unknown and he was raised by a series of nannies. When
Todd grew up he was driving his Ferrari at high speeds,
went off the road and crashed the car. He walked away
without a scratch, but the accident killed a female
passenger. Alex nods; recalling the press had coined it,
"Mr. Todd's Wild Ride." Nick sarcastically
replies, "Cute." Alex wonders aloud if they're
cursed or blessed to be that powerful. Nick replies that
he wouldn't want to trade places with them. Especially
now.

Barnard
family compound

Suzanne makes
some decisions with her staff regarding the business. She
instructs them to call corporate lawyers to set a meeting
regarding the family trust. Rachel is with them when
another son, Trevor, comes in and thanks Rachel for
coming. He then proceeds to tell his mother that he had
heard from Jenkins regarding the merger. Suzanne firmly
tells him that she's not interested in a merger anymore.
He wants to talk to her about it but she says she made up
her mind and the discussion is over. Shaking her head,
she looks at Rachel before saying, "Listen to me,
conducting business on the day of my son's funeral. Have
we lost all sense of propriety?" Rachel quietly
reminds her that "Old habits are hard to
break."

Then Nick is
escorted into the room. He wears a dark suit, beige
trench coat and a blue tie with grey stripes. As he is
introduced to Suzanne Barnard, he offers condolences,
"Very sorry for your loss. Mrs Barnard." She
thanks him for coming and tells him if he needs anything
he has only to ask. Nick leaves to see the office. Rachel
decides to go see Todd and Suzanne informs her he is
quite upset at his uncle's death. She tells Rachel that
spending time with her will be good for him.

Michael's
office

Trevor escorts
Nick to the office and says they left it exactly as it
was. Crime tape marks off the room and Nick goes
underneath it. He puts on plastic gloves and kneels to
get a closer look at the burned area. He uses his
pocketknife to scrape some ash into an evidence vial.
Trevor comments that the chief of police himself is
heading up the investigation and asks what he expects to
find that the police didn't. Nick simply replies
"Something that might not have occurred to the
chief." He sees the marks on the glass on the desk
and asks to take it. Trevor agrees, "Be my
guest."

Compound
 outdoors near pool

Rachel and Todd
walk along the pool edge while bodyguards patrol the
perimeter of the area. He tells Rachel that Suzanne is
very protective of him particularly since he's last in
line. It's not easy being a Barnard, he tells Rachel,
then he sadly adds that his mother couldn't live up to it
so she killed herself. Todd replies that if he's the
future of the family, they're in trouble. Rachel reminds
him that his future is his to create. Her attention is
momentarily diverted to the pool where it seems like
there's a bright light inside it. Turning her attention
back to Todd, she asks if they've received any death
threats. He replies they do now and then and routinely
just turn them over to the police and go about their
business. Rachel continues to probe and asks if the
Sanchez family ever threatened them. Todd says sadly that
the only relative was a grandmother who went into
seclusion after Angela's death. The grandmother had
always believed he took advantage of Angela. Todd had
tried to call after she died but Delores wouldn't take
his calls. He tells Rachel he loved Angela and he still
does. He notes that the papers didn't report that and he
figures it was because disgrace makes better copy.

Todd hugs Rachel
and tells her sincerely how nice it was to talk to her
again. He thanks her for always being there for him when
he was growing up. She tells him that his mother would be
proud of him. Rachel adds that he can call her if he ever
needs to talk. Smiling, he says he might take her up on
it. "I hope so," Rachel replies. They walk away
from the pool. As they leave, one of the tall lights
around the pool glows abnormally bright.

Michael's
office

Rachel returns
to the office where Nick is still looking around. She
asks if the fire could have been from an incendiary
device. Nick replies, "I don't think so," and
explains that even a letter bomb would have left a
signature. There's no shrapnel or pitting on the glass or
the walls. He then looks away from the desk to the
window. He sees a round area on the window glass where
the fireball entered and decides to take that piece of
glass back to the house with him as well.

Legacy 
Control room

Nick, still
wearing his suit, is scanning the glass into the computer
when Alex enters and sits down next to him. She'd been
talking to Derek on the Sat-link and filled him in. She
deepens her voice and mimics Derek, who said, "Defy
conventional wisdom. Throw out your first conclusion.
Look for the least obvious." Nick, still looking at
the monitor screen, replies seriously that they could be
looking at a high-powered laser or spontaneous human
combustion. Alex asks him which is the least obvious.
"I don't know. You tell me," he replies. He
then shows her the lumpy, distorted glass and explains
that it was from a brief but intense surge of heat. It
melted the glass in both spots. She asks,
"ricochet?" Nick does a computer simulation
that proves it's possible. "Could be, " he
replies.

Cemetery
 night

Delores Sanchez,
Angela's grandmother, goes to her gravesite and puts down
her framed photograph. Angrily, she notes she will never
hear her laugh again, but that the gods are answering her
prayers. She adds that soon her soul will be able to rest
in peace knowing that justice is done. She takes the
medallion off her neck and holds it as she intones to
Xiuteuchtli, god of fire and asks that he continue to
bring the rain of fire down upon their enemies.

Barnard house
 Trevor's office - night

Trevor is
working on paperwork when a floor lamp across the room
begins glowing bright, and then dims. A low growl
emanates from the lamp. The bulb activity distracts him
so he gets up from the desk and approaches the lamp. He
reaches up and turns the switch. The fireball that had
been hiding in the bulb jumps out, goes to his face, and
burns him up leaving a pile of ash.

Barnard house
 day

In the living
room, Rachel comforts Suzanne about outliving her
children since she buried all 3 of them. Suzanne tells
Rachel that all her life she's had to be strong but she
doesn't know how much more she can take. Rachel promises
to find out what's going on and stop it.

In the burned
office, Nick, wearing a blue pin striped suit, talks to
Alex on the cell phone, and tells her that it's the same
thing that happened to Michael, right down to the pile of
ash. He advises her the police just left and it's obvious
someone is targeting the family. She plans to research
what she can find. Before hanging up, Nick tells her to
keep him posted, then begins looking around the room. He
looks carefully at the burned spot on the floor and
glances up to the lamp nearby. He takes a cloth from his
pocket and turns the switch. The lamp doesn't light so he
looks at the bulb and sees that it's broken. He reaches
in the lamp and unscrews it. The bulb has a hole in it.

Control room

Alex looks in
the video archive and finds footage from San Francisco's
Channel 23 news. The broadcast is from the steps of the
courthouse after the trial, where Todd was cleared of all
charges in the death of Angela Sanchez. The female
correspondent is doing a live report. Behind her the
press is interviewing Delores Sanchez, who's speaking
Spanish. The correspondent tells the camera that Delores
Sanchez refused to bring civil litigation against the
family for wrongful death, instead saying that only god
will bring justice and she hopes that the Barnard family
will burn in hell. Alex, studying Delores face, frowns
and rewinds and brings Delores' face in a close-up and
studies her lips. Alex is able to translate that what
Delores is actually saying is "The gods will deliver
justice. Make them see the light. They will burn before
they are in hell." Alex rewinds again and hears the
broadcaster with her interpretation again. Alex replies,
"That's not what she said at all, darlin'."
Alex goes to close-up of the medallion that Delores
wears. It has a crescent moon, a blinding sun and a man
holding his arms up.

University -
greenhouse

Edward Bishop, a
tall young blind man, walks in a greenhouse full of
blooming flowers. Alex walks in, smiles and says,
"Still playing with flowers, huh." Edward
grins, "Hello, Alex," and reaches out to touch
her face as he reminds her there are flowers, and then
there are orchids. He feels her face with his hands and
complements her on what wonderful care she's taken of
herself. He then notes she's not wearing Chanel anymore
and asks the name of the new scent. "White
Diamonds," is her reply and she notes it can't
compete with the fragrances there. He tells her he's
lucky the university gives him a small corner to indulge
his habit. She reminds him that he landed a huge Inca
exhibit for the university. He laughs and tells her that
the Peruvian minister of culture took pity on him. She
smiles and says, "right." They haven't seen
each other in several years although are obviously
friends since he has visited her at the Luna Foundation
as well.

She tells him
the reason she came is for help with an artifact that
stumps her. "Stumped you? Well then it must be an
obscure piece," Edward says. She starts to describe
it as being a round solid gold medallion. It has a
crescent moon on the upper left side and on the right a
blazing sun. Edward finishes the description at that
point and adds that underneath a man is raising his hands
towards the sky. She's impressed but he reminds her
that's what he does for a living. He tells her it's
Toltec, from the early 11th century. It is very rare and
is used as an icon for magic by the 'brujas'; witches who
are practitioners of magic. They had different medallions
for different purposes, which included sacrifice on
occasion. She tells him she knows who has it and he
excitedly tells her it sounds mysterious. He offers to
let her use the books in his study so she knows what
she's dealing with. He warns her that some of them are
grisly but she tells him not to worry because she's used
to grisly.

Barnard house

Nick sits with
Todd in the living room. A fire burns in the fireplace.
Todd sadly talks about his uncles and his inability to
believe they're dead. Nick tells him that something with
high energy partially liquefied the bulb in the lamp. He
tells Todd it means he isn't safe in the house. He tells
him they have a house on Angel Island that's well
protected and he wants to bring him there. Todd replies
that he doesn't want to leave his grandmother and Nick
tells him that Rachel is trying to talk sense into her.
They want to protect him against that thing, whatever it
is.

Just then the
fire in the fireplace roars up. Nick sees it and shouts
"Down!" at Todd before tackling him and
dragging him to the ground. The fireball leaps from the
fireplace and strikes the chair Todd was sitting in and
it bursts into flames. Nothing is left but a hole burned
into the floor. Rachel runs in and asks what happened.
Todd tells her that Nick saved his life. Nick replies,
"The question is, from what?" Rachel reassures
Todd that they'll protect him. She's heard from Alex who
is on to something and will call when she has more
details. Todd decides if he's destined to die he wants to
go somewhere first. Nick wants to come along for
protection, but Todd refuses because he doesn't want a
bodyguard where he's going. He asks Rachel to go along
with him for company though. She agrees

Cemetery -
afternoon

Rachel and Todd
walk along the path. Todd carries flowers and recalls
that he met Angela in a dance club. They kept their
relationship secret for a long time because there was too
much prejudice from both sides of the tracks. Rachel
gently asks what happened that night. Todd sadly relates
that he was showing off, driving his Ferrari and going 80
mph when it hit a slick patch in the road and went
airborne. The car flipped over a few times and landed
hard on Angela's side. He tells Rachel that Angela loved
him for himself. She didn't care about his family name,
his money or his car. He lost her because he was too busy
showing her what he was made of instead of who he was.
With deep regret, he says although she loved him for
himself, he couldn't accept it.

They get to the
grave then and Todd puts the bouquet of flowers down.
Mrs. Sanchez confronts them and tells him to leave. He
kindly says he was paying his respects to Angela and
begins to tell her he's sorry but she won't listen.
Rachel offers her condolences to Mrs. Sanchez. Delores
thanks her and tells her brusquely to leave and to take
Todd with her. Todd tells her sincerely that he is sorry
and that he loved Angela. He concludes with the fact that
he asks god every day why he didn't take him instead of
her. Todd then turns to the grave and solemnly says,
"Goodbye Angel." Mrs. Sanchez strikes his arm
then and demands he leave them alone. She looks at Rachel
and tells her to go and leave an old woman to mourn in
peace. Todd walks slowly away. Rachel turns to Delores
and tells her that Todd loved Angela and "no amount
of hate is going to change that." Then she follows
Todd up the path away from Angela's grave.

Barnard house

Nick is talking
to Alex on the phone when Rachel enters. He puts the call
on the speakerphone and Alex tells them what she learned
about the medallion. Nick asks if she thinks Mrs. Sanchez
is a witch and Alex replies that Delores can be very
dangerous. She doesn't know why she waited an entire year
but thinks it's possible that she summoned Toltec demons
to get revenge. She's learned that Toltec demons come in
the form of the elements, water, earth and fire, which is
where they draw their power.

Rachel then
tries to get Suzanne Barnard to leave the house. She
refuses because the explanation isn't logical and she has
the best security money can buy. Rachel tries to convince
her by telling her she's learned not everything has a
logical explanation. In addition, over the last few
years, she's also learned that evil is real and demonic
forces exist. Rachel concludes, "Do you trust me? Do
you? Would I ever lie to you?" Suzanne replies that
she doesn't believe she would. Rachel firmly and with
much conviction tells her the Barnard family is cursed
and that Delores Sanchez intends to wipe out her entire
family. She wants Suzanne to go with her to find Delores
Sanchez and get her to stop the thing before it kills
again. She agrees. Todd will go to Angel Island with
Nick.

Sanchez house

There are many
candles burning on the porch and bottles hang from its
rafters. Suzanne and Rachel knock on the door and tell
Delores they came to ask for her forgiveness. Suzanne
begs her to spare the life of her grandson. Rachel tells
her she knows she's a 'bruja' and "we know you have
magic." Delores tells them she isn't a god and has
no say over who lives or dies. She adds angrily that
Angela would still be alive if it weren't for the Barnard
family. Suzanne tells her she lost her daughter, Melinda,
before she ever got to know her and that she didn't know
how fragile she was. She's obviously upset that Melinda
suffered and yet didn't know how to reach out for help.

Rachel tells
Delores they know about the medallion and tries to
convince her that it's time for her to end it. Suzanne
tells her they don't trust or understand each other but
they've both suffered since she has also lost her sons.
Delores replies that they all deserved to die. Rachel
continues to try to reach her and asks how her legacy is
served by pain, grief and violence. Suzanne extends her
hand and says, "Please. We don't trust or understand
each other but we both suffered." Delores slowly
reaches out and grasps her hand. She sadly tells her she
missies Angela so much that something inside her doesn't
want to live herself. Suzanne replies that she knows
exactly what she's going through. Rachel adds, "It's
time for this to end." Delores picks up the
medallion that she wears around her neck and says,
"Come." They leave together.

Legacy house
 living room

Nick introduces
Todd Barnard to Alex. He expresses his worry about his
grandmother. They reassure him she'll be safe. The demon
doesn't want her because she's not part of its agenda.
They explain that the demon does the will of whoever
summons it and Delores Sanchez wanted revenge on his
family. It won't stop until the bloodline is gone. Alex
continues "De La Raiz means from the root," it
goes from the oldest offspring to the youngest. They
worry that if it's successful in killing him that it may
continue killing. They hope that Rachel can convince
Delores to remove the curse. When Todd wonders what will
happen if they aren't successful, Nick declares, "we
have to snuff this thing out."

Cemetery
 that night

The three women
walk to the grave. Delores kneels and kisses Angela's
gravestone and tells her that she's made a horrible
mistake and gave into her hate. She'd wanted to make
things equal but instead it's more unbalanced than ever
and her pain is worse. Suzanne tells her they have to put
it behind them for the sake of their families. Rachel
encourages, "Delores, it's time." Delores takes
the medallion off her neck and drapes it on the
gravestone, intoning, "God of fire, to whom we
sacrificed hearts and our souls. I bring you a new prayer
tonight." Lightning suddenly crashes in the distance
and a brisk wind begins to blow. She holds the medallion
in her hands. Reaching for Suzanne's hand, she touches it
with the medallion and continues talking to the god,
saying that Suzanne's warm flesh embodies the spirit of
her enemy. She asks that peace be restored between them.
She concludes by telling the god that his justice is done
and begs, "Let there be no more blood shed."
The medallion glows and the storm intensifies. Delores
shouts over the storm, "Let the god of fire that
lives in the light be contained once more and
forever." She turns and tells the women that the god
is coming and it's not safe for them to stay. They back
up just as the god of fire appears in the form of a
fireball. Delores, who hasn't moved, demands it be
contained. Instead of returning to the medallion, it
shoves Delores backward onto the ground and breaks the
chain on the medallion, which causes it to fall to the
ground. Delores tells the women the fire god cannot be
contained. "I have failed. No one can control it now
until it's finished what it began." They turn and
run as the storm gets stronger.

Legacy 
living room  that night

The sounds of an
intense storm rumble in the distance. Todd, who is
looking in reference books in the living room with Nick
and Alex, comments that the sky had been clear and he
wonders where the storm came from. Rachel then calls from
her cell phone. She's still in the graveyard and shouts
over the storm to tell them that something went wrong and
they didn't contain it. Delores had tried to send the
demon back but it got out of control. As the storm
crackles around her and causes static on the phone she
tells them that the incantation was to make it go back
into the light. When it isn't attacking it lives in the
light. That's where it draws its power. Her phone goes
dead before she can continue.

Since their only
clue is that it hides in the light, they plan to black
out the house from all light to be sure it has no place
to hide. Nick notes that blacking out the house isn't
going to be easy since they have moonlight pouring in and
safety lights on battery charge. He wants to hide Todd in
a closet where it's totally dark but he refuses and
instead wants to help. They start by turning all the
lights off downstairs. Alex and Todd start pulling the
drapes in the living room and Nick goes elsewhere to
begin to turn off the lights room by room. They meet in
the kitchen. As they're about to leave, Todd goes to
extinguish the pilot light on the gas range when the
pilot light shoots upwards with a flame. They all run and
barely make it to the next room before the fireball
explodes into the decorative glass door in the kitchen,
shattering it.

Library

Since they know
they aren't safe anywhere with light and it's nearly
impossible to eliminate all the light, Nick tells them
they have to change the battlefield. He wants them all to
get into a small place where they can shut out all the
light, and by doing so, lure it to them. He has a plan to
use mirrors to produce an image so the fire god will come
to them. Todd volunteers to be bait. Nick responds that
"We're here to save your life not cut it
short." Todd replies "There's no other choice
and you guys know it." They retreat to an area near
the library.

Alex is outside
the room trying to locate the fire god. Nick and Todd
have large mirrors ready and a small safe opened up in
the room. They have lit several candles inside the safe.
The plan is to reflect Todd's image in order to lure the
being in the room so they can spring the trap. Todd
comments that if it doesn't nest in the flames, he hopes
they have fire extinguishers. Alex comes in then and says
she located it in one of the wall lights in the hall.
Nick reminds Todd he can say no if he wants to but he
replies that he can't run forever. Nick then looks at
them and says, "Its show time, stay on your
toes." Going out in the hall, Nick looks at the wall
lights. All those lights are lit, but one of the bulbs
glows bright, then dims, then gets bright again. A low
growl also comes from inside the light. He tells Alex to
go back into the library and get ready. She does so and
calls out to him to let him know they're all set. Alex is
near the safe and holds one mirror reflecting the
candlelight and Nick holds another mirror reflecting
Todd's image. When she gives the ready signal, Nick turns
off the switch for the wall lights. Only the fixture that
contains the fire god still glows. "Come on. Come
on," Nick coaxes. The fire god sees Todd's
reflection in the mirrors and strikes out at it. It gets
to the mirror Nick is holding and ricochets off it to
Alex's mirror and from there into the safe and the
candlelight. Alex reaches over, slams the door of the
safe, and locks it. Growling noises come from the safe
and it begins flying around the room as the fire god
tries to escape. After awhile, it lands and the growling
stops. Alex, Todd and Nick look at the safe, then each
other.

Cemetery -
day

Suzanne places a
large basket of flowers at Angela's grave. Delores
crosses herself before taking Suzanne's arm. Then they
walk slowly away together while Rachel watches.

Rachel's
voice-over:

The idea
that a tragedy can be corrected by bringing grief to
others is a time worn fallacy. Someday I hope we'll
understand the futility of revenge and break these
cycles of hatred. For just as the darkest evil can
hide within the brightest light, so too can we emerge
from the saddest times.